New Books in Finance
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Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)
58 mins; October 01, 2024
Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
61 hours 6 mins; September 27, 2024
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
57 mins; September 25, 2024
Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 35 mins; September 22, 2024
Meg Rithmire, "Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; September 14, 2024
Malcolm Macleod, "The Practice of Philanthropy: A Guide for Foundation Boards and Staff" (Barlow Publishing, 2024)
56 mins; September 08, 2024
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
44 mins; September 01, 2024
Robert McCorquodale, "Business and Human Rights" (Oxford UP, 2024)
78 hours 1 min; August 22, 2024
Oliver Volckart, "The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency" (Oxford UP, 2024)
51 mins; August 21, 2024
Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
57 mins; August 20, 2024
Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
64 hours 43 mins; August 20, 2024
Zvi Schreiber, "Money, Going Out of Style: The Story of Money and the Mystery of Its Decline" (2021)
28 mins; August 15, 2024
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
37 mins; August 11, 2024
Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
47 mins; August 09, 2024
Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
87 hours 37 mins; August 08, 2024
Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
45 mins; August 08, 2024
Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
46 mins; August 07, 2024
The GiveWell Method
27 mins; August 07, 2024
Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
62 hours 29 mins; August 06, 2024
Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
42 mins; August 05, 2024
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
68 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2024
Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
70 hours 46 mins; July 21, 2024
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
78 hours 3 mins; July 08, 2024
Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)
66 hours 23 mins; July 03, 2024
Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
51 mins; June 30, 2024
Nicolas Véron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)
43 mins; June 28, 2024
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
48 mins; June 27, 2024
Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
58 mins; June 25, 2024
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, "The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
53 mins; June 22, 2024
Rhodri Davies, "What Is Philanthropy For?" (Bristol UP, 2023)
38 mins; June 19, 2024
Qian Wei, "The Governance of Philanthropic Foundations in Authoritarian China" (Routledge, 2022)
76 hours 34 mins; June 18, 2024
Kathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street" (Yale UP, 2019)
57 mins; June 10, 2024
Financial Institutions and Enslavement
59 mins; June 08, 2024
Using History to Better Finance and Build Social Wealth
68 hours 23 mins; June 06, 2024
Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
43 mins; May 27, 2024
Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models
86 hours 46 mins; May 24, 2024
Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)
42 mins; May 20, 2024
Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024)
47 mins; May 16, 2024
Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)
61 hours 56 mins; May 14, 2024
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
38 mins; May 13, 2024
Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
62 hours 4 mins; May 05, 2024
Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
53 mins; April 28, 2024
Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
65 hours 5 mins; April 23, 2024
John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
58 mins; April 22, 2024
Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)
58 mins; April 19, 2024
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career
47 mins; April 11, 2024
Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards
79 hours 8 mins; April 08, 2024
Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
29 mins; March 30, 2024
"Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara
39 mins; March 19, 2024
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics
88 hours 11 mins; March 13, 2024
Mark J. Higgins, "Investing in U.S. Financial History: Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future" (Greenleaf, 2024)
41 mins; March 13, 2024
Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
58 mins; March 06, 2024
Gerald Epstein, "Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us" (U California Press, 2024)
61 hours 18 mins; February 28, 2024
Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
52 mins; February 26, 2024
Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)
71 hours 49 mins; February 22, 2024
Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)
37 mins; February 21, 2024
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
61 hours 33 mins; February 18, 2024
Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2019)
63 hours 31 mins; February 17, 2024
William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future" (Oxford UP, 2019)
46 mins; February 12, 2024
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
32 mins; February 07, 2024
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
31 mins; February 03, 2024
Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America
35 mins; February 02, 2024
Bruce Wardhaugh, "Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
69 hours 49 mins; January 26, 2024
Daniel Peris, "The Ownership Dividend: The Coming Paradigm Shift in the U.S. Stock Market" (Routledge, 2024)
52 mins; January 23, 2024
Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)
43 mins; January 23, 2024
John Quiggin, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)
46 mins; January 10, 2024
Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory? A Policy Critique” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
41 mins; January 09, 2024
Applying Historical Perspectives to Finance (with Daniel Peris)
67 hours 12 mins; January 04, 2024
Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
36 mins; January 02, 2024
James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)
52 mins; January 01, 2024
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
59 mins; December 28, 2023
Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
38 mins; December 21, 2023
The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin
40 mins; December 16, 2023
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
50 mins; December 10, 2023
The Enlightened Donor: How to Give Charity Wisely
23 mins; November 22, 2023
Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
64 hours 8 mins; November 17, 2023
Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
50 mins; November 13, 2023
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
61 hours 9 mins; November 08, 2023
Akram Benjamin, "Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: The Case of Egypt During the First half of the Twentieth Century" (2019)
32 mins; November 08, 2023
Zeke Faux, "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall" (Currency, 2023)
52 mins; November 04, 2023
Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians
59 mins; November 04, 2023
Ian Jones, "Using the Past: Authenticity, Reliability, and the Role of Archives in Barclays PLC's Use of the Past Strategies" (U Liverpool, 2021)
42 mins; October 17, 2023
Jana Randow and Alessandro Speciale, "Mario Draghi, the Craftsman: The True Story of the Man Who Saved the Euro" (Rizzoli, 2019)
55 mins; October 14, 2023
Quantitative Investing, Inflation and the Macroeconomy
85 hours 47 mins; October 11, 2023
GSEs, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy
65 hours 51 mins; October 09, 2023
Rachel O'Dwyer, "Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform" (Verso, 2023)
48 mins; October 08, 2023
IMF Central Bank Technical Assistance and the International Monetary System
69 hours 18 mins; October 03, 2023
Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; September 17, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
34 mins; September 12, 2023
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
52 mins; August 12, 2023
Keren Winterford et al., "Reframing Aid: A Strengths-Based Approach for International Development" (Practical Action, 2023)
77 hours 30 mins; August 10, 2023
Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)
40 mins; August 07, 2023
Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)
49 mins; August 06, 2023
Ryan C. Smith, "The Real Oil Shock: How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
61 hours 57 mins; August 06, 2023
Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)
50 mins; August 02, 2023
The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That
80 hours 7 mins; July 28, 2023
Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)
45 mins; July 27, 2023
Thomas Piketty on Capitalism and Inequality (Adaner Usmani, JP)
50 mins; July 20, 2023
Emily Flitter, "The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America" (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)
57 mins; July 11, 2023
Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
47 mins; July 05, 2023